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...Thrashing like a windmill run amuck, Indiana University Sophomore Mike Troy, 19, tied his own 53:1 American record for the 110-yd. butterfly, broke his American record for the 22O-yd. butterfly by 4.4 sec. with a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: American Wafer Bugs | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Most people had an easy time with the first dozen puzzles, with such teasers as Troy, Bronx, Albany and Ithaca. But after the second week, some of the less hardy began to panic; that's when the cultural crisis...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tangle Towns | 1/20/1960 | See Source »

...North Troy (Jay Peak)--25-25, powder, excellent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Conditions | 1/12/1960 | See Source »

...good neighbor policy is precipitated by Wally Troy, who treks from cabin to cabin explaining in third-base-coach fashion that "the game isn't over 'til the last fly is caught," and that "you got to give." By applying this world series weltanschauung to her own life, Miss McKenna persuades the young man to marry the girl, realizes that people count, and repays Wally by extricating him from a jam. All is saved; and SYMBOLICALLY (of course) the M on the neon MOTEL sign flashes back on; it had been off during the play...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: Motel | 1/12/1960 | See Source »

...view of human nature which makes it as malleable as a baseball game where the batters make sacrifice plays for each other. Perhaps this dugout philosophy has truth in it, but that the rules for happiness and self discovery should effuse from the straight-jacket mind of Wally Troy is repulsive to anyone's sensibility. Ruby Troy's loneliness, which Wally fails to understand or aid, is the most genuine problem, which Phipps fails to develop, since it would interfere with his pat ending...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: Motel | 1/12/1960 | See Source »

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